Timothy ShanahanUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoE-mail AuthorTIMOTHY SHANAHAN is a professor of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is chair of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, and director of the Center for Literacy. He is currently a principal investigator on the National Title I Study of Implementation and Outcomes: Early Childhood Language Development. His work focuses on the improvement of reading achievement, reading-writing connections, and disciplinary literacy.